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Online streaming platforms that allow users to leave gratuities for content creators or make direct payments to each other outside the purview of licensed money transmission are widening a gap in U.S. defenses against illicit finance, analysts told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, has long exempted vendors and the companies that handle their payments from having to monitor transactions of a commercial nature and report those that appear suspicious, affirming and clarifying the policy in a series of administrative rulings in 2003, 2009, 2013 and 2014. But some streaming platforms blur the line...